Throughout this semester we have discussed all different types of technology and the positives and negatives that come with them. It has forced each of us to think about the role that technology plays in our lives and whether or not it is healthy. I think that my relationship with it is more of a frenemies type of situation. Sometimes we're good and sometimes we're not. Sometimes I sit in bed trowing my phone over being left on read on snapchat and sometimes I'm connecting with people that I haven't seen in years. Just like many things, I feel like a relationship with technology can't be all good or all bad... unless you're my eighty-two year old grandfather who still can't comprehend an email let alone a text message.
I'm not sure about other companies but for anyone with an I Phone, there is a setting that allows you to see
how much time you spent on your phone that day and what apps you spent it on. Some days my screen-time is as little as an hour but on other days it can be as much as seven or eight but in all of those days, my most used apps are social media. Tik Tok is usually the front runner because come on, it's hard not to get stuck in a hole of cute puppy videos for hours at a time but after that comes snapchat as that is my primary means of communication and instagram for reasons unknown.
Technology plays a different roll in the lives of each of my family members. I use it to communicate with people and do my homework. My little sister uses it to watch Netflix and gossip with her friends over FaceTime because she's seventeen and has nothing else to do. My built his career designing computers and even now that he's retired, he uses technology to mess with cars and race them. My mom works in business and spends at least fourteen hours of the day in video calls with people halfway across the world or typing up reports for her staff. Technology is not the same for any two people even if we use it for the same things sometimes.
In all honesty, I'm not entirely sure what my online footprint looks like. I know that there are some articles written about me on the internet about awards I won in high school or accomplishments that I made but there are also probably some videos of me out at a party doing something stupid somewhere. When I google myself, more comes up about my parents than me. My mother is extremely high up in one of the largest banks in the world and my father races cars. They both have careers that follow them around, so much so that they come up even when my name is searched. Being a college student, there isn't much about me to find. I found links to my social media accounts and a couple articles written about me but that is about it.
I do think that technology can be great but I also hold the belief that just like in Michael Andrews and Gary Jules' video, technology could be humanities downfall. There is a careful balance that must be kept in order to reap the benefits of it.
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